{"id":10578,"date":"2026-06-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10578"},"modified":"2025-12-14T15:30:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T15:30:04","slug":"looking-at-eric-santners-book-2016-the-weight-of-all-flesh-part-6-of-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10578","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Eric Santner\u2019s Book (2016)\u00a0The Weight of All Flesh\u00a0(Part 6 of 28)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0116 By the end of the preface, Santner sets the stage for his two lectures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here, I want to review and tie some strings together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0117 To start, look at the partially complete interscopes of early modern political theology (the dual body of the king) and modern political economy (the nature of citizen<sup>Marat<\/sup>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide10.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide10-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here,<em>&nbsp;the actualities of both nested forms<\/em>&nbsp;are written as dyads.&nbsp;&nbsp;These actualities are king<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;and subject<sub>2a<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide11.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide11-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Again,&nbsp;<em>the actualities of both nested forms<\/em>&nbsp;are written as dyads.&nbsp;&nbsp;These actualities are citizen<sup>Marat<\/sup>&nbsp;and citizen<sup>regular<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0118 Santner\u2019s thesis goes like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The late medieval and early modern<em>&nbsp;glory of the sublime body of the king<\/em>&nbsp;has been dispersed, in middle and late modernism, to&nbsp;<em>all citizens in the modern political economy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0119 The category-based nested forms (that associate to terms in Santner\u2019s discussion) suggest that the logic may be framed as&nbsp;<em>a historic transition from one partial interscope to another<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, there is an historic transition in primordial images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0120 Next,&nbsp;<em>the general form of the society tier<\/em>&nbsp;looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide12.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide12.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide12-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0121 The previous two models resonate with the general interscope of the society tier, as developed in the foundational work&nbsp;<em>How to Define the Word \u201cReligion\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example,&nbsp;<em>the early modern sublime body of the king<sub>3b<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>the modern normal context of discipline<sub>3b<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;resonate with&nbsp;<em>sovereign office<sub>3b<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0122 What does this imply?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story begins with Christianity as a suprasovereign religion.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, this beginning does not appear in Santner\u2019s inquiry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0116 By the end of the preface, Santner sets the stage for his two lectures. 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